Featured Nippon porcelain salt cellars salt dishes - Age and Maker?

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  1. Mansons2005

    Mansons2005 Nasty by Nature, Curmudgeon by Choice

    I have a set of 6 of these little charmers - 3" in diameter, 3-3/8" including lugs, and just a hair under 1" deep. They are made of translucent porcelain and the decoration includes thick gold.

    Anyone have an idea of the manufacturer or the approx age? (1920s?).

    I have to list with a BIN price so need some "specs" so I can go look up past sales. Thanks in advance, L&G..................

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  3. Mansons2005

    Mansons2005 Nasty by Nature, Curmudgeon by Choice

    Thanks - the only marks I find for them seem to be Roman Ts in diamond lozenges - but I am only looking at other listings on Google. Isn't there a website that parses Japanese marks? My mind has blocked it out if so......................like so much else in m life.....................
     
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    Might know.
     
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  5. Mansons2005

    Mansons2005 Nasty by Nature, Curmudgeon by Choice

    Thank you!
     
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  7. pearlsnblume

    pearlsnblume Well-Known Member

    Can not help, but super nice photos.
     
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  9. Bakersgma

    Bakersgma Well-Known Member

    Adorable - could also be nut dishes.
     
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    Bakersgma Well-Known Member

    With "Nippon" on the bottom, should be pre-1921.
     
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  11. Mansons2005

    Mansons2005 Nasty by Nature, Curmudgeon by Choice

    Gotheborg!!!!! That is what slipped out of my conscious mind into the nether regions of memory. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, Thank you! I have a shissel of porcelain tchotchkes that an aunt with no taste and a lot of money bought indiscriminately from about 1900 until 1970. She had cabinets full of this stuff, which my Father inherited, never unpacked, and then passed to me...............I keep hoping Aunt Gertie got a least ONE treasure out of all that traveling....................but I begin to doubt................
     
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  12. Mansons2005

    Mansons2005 Nasty by Nature, Curmudgeon by Choice

    Why, thank you!
     
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    Mansons2005 Nasty by Nature, Curmudgeon by Choice

    IN any event, thanks for the info - and yeah, these are "bearable" because of the colours and general form - not too garish, but still colourfull
     
  14. Mansons2005

    Mansons2005 Nasty by Nature, Curmudgeon by Choice

    I will NOT make a "Finally, something older than I" joke here................well, maybe...................
     
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    Interesting, a Lebanon connection.
     
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    Bakersgma Well-Known Member

    Lebanon??
     
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    BIBIMight be the mark of a shop or trading company that commissioned pieces for sale, and got pieces from various kilns marked like this. The mark occurs on several pieces of which some are almost identical to Kutani. Recent information has it that Bibi is the name of a family import firm that imported porcelain from Japan to Lebanon during the 1950s and 60s. This porcelain had a Bibi mark on it and was sold in Beirut. The family might also have had a porcelain import business in Palestine in the 1930s and 40s before they were forced to flee in 1947.
     
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  19. Bakersgma

    Bakersgma Well-Known Member

    Interesting.
     
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  20. Mansons2005

    Mansons2005 Nasty by Nature, Curmudgeon by Choice


    But, but, but, Aunt Gert was an American, married to an English (remittance) man and lived in Kenya................so, yeah, a confused global connection does not seem out of the question...............
    But how to present all that to the buying public................oy vey

    Oops! Edited to add my belated thanks!
     
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